This week marked the final semester of my undergraduate study at university. I find this simultaneously scary and exciting; it provides a glimpse into the real world, yet I still find myself amidst the safe perimeter of university life. 617 more words

Pandora, the jungle moon at the centre of James Cameron’s Avatar, has a lot of waterfalls.

In one scene, protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) leaps from the top of a waterfall to evade being devoured by a ferocious leopard-like beast known as a Thanator, thus separating himself from his human companions and stumbling, for the first time, into the society of the indigenous alien Na’vi – and later, Jake will engage in a crucial rite of passage alongside another waterfall, marking his full initiation into a Na’vi tribe. 965 more words